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Education What To Watch This Weekend: New Shows And Movies To Stream On Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Apple TV And More By Erik Kain ,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. Follow Author Aug 08, 2026, 09:17pm EDT Post updated 08/08/26. See updates below.
Twisted serial killers out for revenge. Rivals for the throne finally clashing arms in an epic battle for the future of the kingdom. England’s favorite American football coach, taking a new team under his wing. These and many other TV shows and movies await your viewing pleasure this weekend, and this list has them all.
I’ve had a weirdly busy week and haven’t done a ton of TV or movie watching, though I did catch up on the new Hulu series, Furious (see below) and I believe I’m all caught up on the crime drama, Westies. I watched the first episode of Sugar’s second season, which was quite good, and now that the finale is out I can watch the whole thing.
I also wrote a few pieces worth linking to, like this one about how Spider-Man: Brand New Day ’s post-credits scene was a mistake and this newsletter piece on how Mel Gibson’s The Odyssey might differ from Christopher Nolan’s . I also published a new video discussion of The Odyssey on my YouTube channel. You can follow me on this blog , at my Substack newsletter, Diabolical , and on YouTube , by the way. I’m all over the place!
As per usual, I’ve searched high and low for the best TV shows and movies streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV, Disney+ for you to watch this weekend. If you have any recommendations, tips or other thoughts feel free to shoot me a note. Let me know what you’re watching these days, or if you’ve enjoyed any of my recommendations, on Twitter , Instagram , or Facebook . Be sure to also check out last weekend’s streaming guide below:
What It’s About: Ryan Murphy ( Glee, The Politician , etc) adapts the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name for FX/Hulu. Set in Los Angeles in 1981, The Shards follows a 17-year-old fictionalized Bret Easton Ellis (Igby Rigney) through his senior year at the elite Buckley prep school, where the arrival of enigmatic transfer student Robert Mallory (Homer Gere) coincides with the killings of a serial murderer known as The Trawler.
Why You Should Watch: I’m not really sure, if we’re being honest. The promo images of young people in the 80s in swimsuits make this look like a show for young people and I’m not a young man anymore. The reviews aren’t great (55% / 35% audience and critic scores) and I suppose I’m not really a big Bret Easton Ellis guy. I mean, I enjoyed the movie American Psycho , but I never read the book! Maybe I should do that instead of watching this show.
What It’s About : An eight-episode crime drama created by Elizabeth Meriwether, loosely inspired by the 1987 film Black Widow . FBI agent Alice Black (Emmy Rossum) hunts a calculating female serial killer played by Lola Petticrew (who I first saw in Say Nothing , I believe). As their paths converge the line between justice and revenge gets blurry. Scoot McNairy, Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Jake Lacy also star. Why You Should Watch : I’ve watched the first four episodes of Furious, which actually debuted last week but I missed it somehow and that’s why it’s front and center in this weekend’s streaming guide. I like it but don’t love it so far. It’s watchable and I’m curious to see where it goes but it feels very cliched in a lot of ways and a little heavy-handed and while Rossum and Petticrew are both great, and I’m thrilled to see Rossum in something again after her long run on Shameless, I just don’t like any of the characters very much at all. Still, cat-and-mouse serial killer detective shows are my guilty pleasure so I’ll be watching this on Monday nights. The finale drops on August 31.
What It’s About : Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) returns to Richmond to coach a second-division women’s football team in this reboot of the popular Apple TV sports comedy series. Jack Burditt (30 Rock, Modern Family) takes over as showrunner for this new, more estrogen-charged spin on the fish-out-of-water TV show. Why You Should Watch : Honestly, the reason that Ted Lasso worked so well in the first season was precisely because it was a fish-out-of-water comedy. But a fish can only stay out of water for so long before, well, RIP fish. Ted was an adorable lead and head coach and despite his lack of experience or knowledge of soccer, his remarkable way with people took everyone off guard, including viewers. That affable, mustachioed man was the epitome of “I am rubber and you are glue” and nothing stuck to him. He made you want to believe (like Fox Mulder did back int he day, only about aliens and whatnot).
That rarest work of optimism and hope in a sea of cynicism was perfect in its first season. But it should have been a one-and-done series because it ran out of steam in Season 2 and I didn’t return for Season 3. I have no interest in Season 4, but if you do, the first episode came out this Wednesday (Tuesday evening for Apple TV) with ten episodes running through October 7.
What It’s About: A five-part HBO documentary series directed by Eric Goode ( Tiger King , Chimp Crazy ), produced by Goode Films, A24, and Central Pictures. Goode dives into the underworld of exotic animal smuggling, a billion-dollar criminal enterprise driven by obsession over rare species. The docuseries is inspired by and draws from the 2008 nonfiction book, The Lizard King , by Bryan Christy (oddly, not about The Doors frontman, Jim Morrison). Why You Should Watch: I really think Lizard King would have been a better name for this series, since it would so quickly evoke Goode’s hit Tiger King, but maybe that name was taken or maybe they worried about the link to The Doors. Either way, with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score (based on just 10 reviews) this one might be worth checkikng out.
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